Posted on 06/23/2010 1:45:24 PM PDT by Kieri
Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been indicted on federal fraud and tax charges.
Federal prosecutors say the alleged scheme is related to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a tax-exempt fund that was supposed to pay for voter education and other purposes.
Instead, Kilpatrick is accused of using it as a slush fund to take cash payments for himself, friends and relatives.
In an indictment filed Wednesday, he's accused of failing to report at least $640,000 in taxable income between 2003 and 2008, which includes money, private jet flights and personal expenses paid by the civic fund.
The government says he used the money to pay for yoga and golf lessons, golf clubs, summer camp for his kids, personal travel, moving expenses, as well as "counter-surveillance and anti-bugging equipment."
He'll be arraigned July 13.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner sentenced Kilpatrick to up to five years in prison on May 25 for violating probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff. The 2008 criminal case forced him out of office.
SURPRISE, SUPRISE
I'll say.
In an indictment filed Wednesday, he's accused of failing to report at least $640,000 in taxable income between 2003 and 2008, which includes money, private jet flights and personal expenses paid by the civic fund.
He lives large off 'perks' while his city and his constituents and perhaps even some of his staff crash and burn, truly despicable.
Good. Maybe now he’ll finally get the hell out of North Texas.
What else do you expect from a political party with a LONG history of political scandal right from its very beginnings? Does anyone remember William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, who ran the infamous Tammany Society, perhaps the most scandalous political machine in American history? And how it defined Democratic Party politics, in many ways even to this day?
Wasn’t there also a suspicion he was involved in a murder of a girl?
Hey, mom has something to say to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twRPO7DQoL4&feature=related
I wonder if “Kwame” means dumb as a frick’n rock.
Much to his dismay, no doubt.
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